Get Schooled / True Education — Chapter 25¶
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Opening — The evidence against the teachers¶
The chapter opens with the scanlation credits, a warning about strong language, and the recurring fiction disclaimer.
Lim Han-rim reacts to the case file with open disgust. The students at the elite school were not merely pressured about grades. They were bullied through school records, performance assessments, and leaked examination questions.
She asks, in substance:
“SO BECAUSE OF THEIR SCHOOL GRADES, THOSE POOR STUDENTS WERE BULLIED?”
“AND THEY ALSO LEAKED THE TEST QUESTIONS?”
Na Hwa-jin says that if the evidence is handed directly to the police, Cheon Sang-yeol will simply be finished as a criminal suspect.
Lim assumes that is the goal.
Na refuses:
“NOPE, THERE’S NO NEED.”
He argues that Cheon’s provable legal offense is only part of what happened. The teachers must first be made to understand how they used the school system against children.
“WE NEED TO EDUCATE THEM ABOUT WHAT THEY’VE DONE SO FAR!”
A close, shadowed panel of Na’s face makes the plan feel more ominous than a normal disciplinary investigation.
The teachers’ “midterm examination”¶
The corrupt teachers are dressed in school uniforms and placed under rules that resemble the conditions they once imposed on students.
A printed score sheet reads:
“Midterm Examination”
Tasks include:
- Clean the school — 2 points per day
- Be a meal helper — 2 points per day
- Greet the students warmly — 0.1 points per person
- Read the full text of the Student Human Rights Ordinance
- Ask the following students for forgiveness — 50 points
The final task carries most of the available score.
One teacher stares at the paper and demands:
“DIRECTOR… WHAT THE HELL IS THIS…?”
Na announces:
“STARTING FROM NOW ON!”
“THE MIDTERM EXAMINATION!”
The exam period lasts until 9 a.m. one week later.
Any teacher who does not score at least sixty points will be expelled from the school.
Na makes the consequence explicit:
“FOR YOU GUYS, EXPULSION MEANS LOSING YOUR JOBS!”
The teachers finally experience the same fear that accompanies a high-stakes school score: a number determined by an authority will decide whether their future continues.
Na tells them to pay particular attention to the final question. A teacher can perform every easy duty and still fail if the victim refuses forgiveness.
Students reverse the old power relationship¶
Teachers clean, serve food, and work around the school while students watch.
The former victims are not automatically gentle.
A frightened student tries to stop the humiliation, saying:
“GUYS… LET’S STOP NOW…!”
Another student asks why forgiveness should come easily after everything done to the girls.
“FORGIVENESS AFTER ALL THE SHIT YOU’VE DONE TO THE GIRLS?”
A student deliberately knocks over or destroys something precious belonging to a teacher, then mocks him with the same language adults once used to dismiss student suffering:
“OOPS~ DON’T OVERREACT~ IT’S A MISTAKE.”
She adds that her hands have been shaking lately because someone caused her stress, and she threatens another “mistake.”
The teacher realizes that authority no longer protects his belongings or dignity.
Choi Hyun-woong confronts the teacher who ordered his assault¶
One teacher decides to attempt the supposedly easy forgiveness task first.
He approaches Choi Hyun-woong, apparently assuming that an apology will produce fifty points.
Instead, Hyun-woong asks for an account of what was done to him.
The teacher had arranged expenses and punishment around Hyun-woong’s hospitalization. Hyun-woong reminds him:
“YEAH, I WAS HOSPITALIZED! YOU FUCKER!”
He asks how many weeks the teacher wants him hospitalized next time:
“A WEEK?! TWO WEEKS?! OR FOREVER?!”
The teacher recoils and calls him crazy.
Hyun-woong answers:
“I’M NOT THE ONE WHO’S CRAZY, IT’S YOU, BASTARD!”
“WHAT KIND OF TEACHER ORDERS A STUDENT TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT?!”
The teacher presents the forgiveness form.
Hyun-woong laughs at the phrase “I forgive your sins.”
He throws or tears it back at him:
“WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP!”
“HERE YOU GO~ YOU FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT!”
Na watches the failure and observes that only a few syllables separate the teacher from passing, but those words are impossible to obtain without genuine accountability.
Teacher Kang Hyun-suk changes¶
Another teacher, Kang Hyun-suk, behaves differently.
He realizes that the examination questions he had relied on were old or useless and that he cannot manipulate the process.
While cleaning, he sees students deliberately dumping trash and demanding that he start over.
The students chant:
“GET OUT OF SCHOOL!”
The repetition resembles a public expulsion ritual.
Kang Hyun-suk does not retaliate.
He announces:
“I WILL RESIGN AS OF TODAY.”
He explains that he understood what happened the previous day. The students do not want him, and that rejection measures how deeply the faculty hurt them.
“THE FACT THAT THE STUDENTS DON’T WANT US…”
“THAT’S HOW MUCH WE HAD HURT THE CHILDREN.”
He says he will ask forgiveness whether or not he is allowed to remain.
“IT’S CLEAR THAT A TEACHER WHO IS NOT RESPECTED BY THEIR STUDENTS IS NOT QUALIFIED TO BE A TEACHER.”
He thanks Na for reminding him of something essential.
The students sign¶
Na stops Kang before he leaves.
The students assigned to evaluate him have already signed the forgiveness document.
The implication is that they were watching for sincerity rather than perfection. Kang’s willingness to surrender his job without bargaining convinced them that the apology was not merely a strategy for passing.
His total is announced:
“MIDTERM EXAM SCORE IS 62 POINTS. YOU PASSED.”
Kang is told to remove the school uniform and return to the platform as a teacher.
Na turns the moment into a lesson for the remaining faculty:
“YOU SEE THAT? YOU GUYS CAN DO IT TOO.”
“IF YOU APOLOGIZE WITH SINCERITY, YOU WILL PROBABLY REALIZE IT ONE DAY.”
The final panels hold on Cheon Sang-yeol and the others.
Na wonders aloud:
“LET’S SEE HOW FAR ‘SINCERITY’ GOES…”
A teacher admits internally:
“I WAS WRONG THIS WHOLE TIME.”
Chapter-level observations¶
1. The exam converts professional security into a score¶
The teachers treated student records as tools of control. Na forces them to experience employment as something that can be lost through a numerical evaluation controlled by the people they harmed.
2. Forgiveness is not compelled¶
The students are allowed to refuse. The fifty-point question cannot be solved by authority, paperwork, or bribery.
3. Kang passes by accepting the consequence¶
His resignation matters because it proves that he is no longer treating forgiveness as a transaction.
4. The chapter does not idealize the victims¶
Some students become cruel when power reverses. The story shows the emotional damage produced by the teachers without pretending that suffering automatically creates gentleness.